Despite being ready for an attack earlier in the night, The Phenomenal One is blindsided by Jinder Mahal & The Singh Brothers

Despite being ready for an attack earlier in the night, The Phenomenal One is blindsided by Jinder Mahal & The Singh Brothers

AJ Styles and Jinder Mahal kept it civilised in their in-ring meeting on SmackDown but things turned vicious backstage.

Styles had earlier taken out his frustrations on the Singh brothers, who approached the WWE champion with promises of staying out of their title match at Clash of Champions, live on Sky Sports Box Office on Sunday night.

The duo - who have continuously come up short in their physical confrontations with Styles - pledged to not interfere in Sunday night's main event and even went as far as criticising Mahal.